Methadone Clinics – Maintenance or Trap?

Methadone Clinics

More than a quarter of a million Americans are enrolled in methadone clinics,
where they participate in “methadone replacement” or “methadone
maintenance” to treat narcotic addictions to heroin or morphine,
or prescription painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, OxyContin or Vicodin.

Unfortunately, many people on methadone programs can reach such high dosages
that, when they want to get clean for good, they have difficulty finding
a methadone detox facility that will accept anyone taking more than 80
or 100 mg a day. Also, many other people want off methadone but are discouraged
by the extreme discomfort and added time of withdrawing from methadone.

In other words, many people feel “trapped” by methadone replacement programs.

Fortunately, Novus can help almost anyone dependent on methadone —
including high-dose methadone dependence.

Here’s what one patient had to say:“I was taking 300 — 600mg of methadone daily. Up to 1200 at
times along with 10 — 20 mg of Xanax when I entered Novus. All hope
was gone, no detox would take me. 14 days after, I leave here drug free
and miraculously, my detox was 99% pain free. I leave with hope and full
support of my family. Words cannot describe the miracles that I have gone
through and witnessed during my stay.”

How Methadone Clinics Trap Millions of Addicts

Methadone clinics do not address the real physiological and other causes
of addiction to opioids and opiates.

Instead of drug detox and drug rehab programs, which actually qualify as
treatments, methadone clinics use the heroin-like
prescription narcotic painkiller methadone to “treat” addictions to narcotics, switching patients from
the original narcotic addiction to another narcotic, methadone.

The theory is that, because you only need one hit of methadone a day, you
are freed from the constant need to find numerous hits of other narcotics
such as heroin all day long. Although you’re still a narcotic addict,
you may be able to get back to work or be with your family again.

The bad news is that methadone is much more difficult to withdraw from
than most of the narcotics it claims to be “treating.” And
the longer you take methadone, the more methadone you need, so the worse
withdrawal becomes.

The end result is the well-known “methadone prison” which can
last for decades, or until the methadone addict wanting to detox can find
a methadone detox facility, such as Novus, that accepts high-dose addictions.

People Can Escape the Methadone Prison and Take Off Their “Liquid
Handcuffs.” We See It Every Day At Novus.

At Novus Detox, we successfully treat methadone addictions on a regular
basis. We believe that methadone clinic “treatment” is a prison
where addicts are not confined by walls, but by their dependence on methadone,
to get through each day.

Few methadone clinics will tell you it will be almost impossible to withdraw
from methadone on your own.

Life of a Methadone User

Here are some comments from former Novus Medical Detox Center patients
now free of methadone, describing how methadone addiction and the methadone
clinics imprisoned them:

You get up early to drive or take a bus to the methadone clinic —
life can’t continue without it

The clinic is often in a rundown or even dangerous neighborhood

You stand in line with strangers — some who wear business suits and
others who haven’t bathed in weeks

When friends ask you to go away for a weekend or a cruise, you have to
make up excuses about why you can’t leave town

You can never take off for a few days with your kids to go camping or to
amusement parks in another city

As time goes by, you have less and less energy

The face in your mirror soon looks much older than it should

You worry because your libido is decreasing at an alarming rate, and nothing
seems to help

Being chained to the nearest methadone clinic is far from the only drawback
of these clinics. Some research indicates that methadone clinics are possibly
contributing to the alarming rise in methadone-related deaths—a
300 percent increase since 2000, substantially more than the simple increase
in methadone prescriptions.

There is hope for a new life. Call to speak to one of our experienced &
caring detox advisors today!
(855) 464-8550

How Government, The Public And The Media Justify Methadone Clinics

As you read through these points, keep this in mind:

Anyone addicted to methadone is still a drug addict, and if properly treated
could very likely recover to a life completely free of drugs.

These are some of the justifications used for the existence of methadone clinics:

Methadone reduces the uncomfortable
symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and other opioids. That’s a no-brainer — of course
it does. Methadone is a narcotic every bit as addictive as heroin or morphine,
so of course, addicts find it easier to stop taking illegal opioids when
taking methadone.

At higher dosages, methadone blocks the euphoric effect of heroin and other
opioids, encouraging opioid addicts to stay off the illegal drugs. Another
no-brainer — but the heroin addict is now a methadone addict whose
life is still enslaved by drugs.

Methadone is very (repeat, very) inexpensive compared to heroin, morphine
and other narcotics. The government, which pays most bills for most methadone
clinics, really likes this point. Taxpayers, on the other hand, would
rather see drug addicts completely off drugs for good—the tax dollars
used for a cure, not supporting a lifetime of drug addiction.

The presence of methadone clinics is said by their proponents to reduce
local drug-related crime and illnesses from sharing needles. In some locations,
crime increased, and one of the best-selling street drugs has become clinic-supplied
methadone.

Where methadone maintenance programs are a tax-supported social service,
the state trades off the cost of the methadone and the clinic against
the perceived higher costs of drug-related crime and justice actions.
Studies have shown that paying to cure addicts now would save countless
billions of tax dollars in the long run.

“Addiction experts” have everyone convinced that opioid addiction
is an “incurable chronic relapsing condition” — there
is no cure for addiction. This attitude flies in the face of thousands
of people becoming free of narcotic addictions every year.

Methadone manufacturers, distributors and methadone clinics — whether
tax supported or private — are part of a world-wide billion-dollar
methadone clinic industry located in every city and town.

Why Methadone Clinics Do Not Offer A Real Solution

Everyone involved in the existence of methadone clinics shares the same
opportunity to review the evidence — narcotic addictions can be
cured. But they continue to ignore it, instead plowing millions of people
into a lifetime of state-sanctioned addictions. Essentially, the addict
is switched from one narcotic addiction to another — methadone.
Here are a few of the reasons that methadone clinics do not offer narcotic
addicts, their families, or society at large, any kind of workable, acceptable
solution to narcotic addiction:

The proponents of methadone clinics rarely mention the fact that opioid
addictions can be cured, and that methadone clinics are just prolonging
the agony of addiction.

Methadone clinics trade on the erroneous perception that methadone detox
is too difficult for addicts to endure, that drug rehab is hit-and-miss
and real recovery is unlikely or even impossible.

Supporters don’t mention how methadone worsens addiction —
methadone is the most difficult of all narcotics to withdraw from, and
the longer you take it, the worse it gets.

Methadone clinics also don’t tell you that methadone is more dangerous
than all other prescription narcotic painkillers, actually threatening
patients’ lives. Unlike heroin or morphine, you don’t have
to be addicted to methadone to die from it — the very first dose
can kill you.

Methadone research and hundreds of deaths prove that methadone affects
heart rhythm among a predictable percentage of people, which can lead
to sudden cardiac arrest and death.

Special-interest lobby groups continue to push the line that narcotic addictions
are too difficult to try to cure, or in fact are impossible to cure. Political
representatives, and even the medical profession, have bought into this.

Thousands of “for profit” methadone clinics — and the
pharmaceutical drug makers — owe their existence to making sure
there are lots and lots of addicts. Curing addiction is not profitable.

Addictions to all the narcotics — heroin, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone
and the rest — are all curable through modern methadone medical
drug detox, followed by the right long-term drug rehab program.

We develop an individualized medical detox program specifically for each
of our patients, which means no recovery will look the same. Our delicious
food, nutritional IVs and supplements, and specialized detox protocols
are all designed to quicken the healing process. We understand that various
addictions present a number of issues for the human body, so we create
our IVs and diets to fit the needs of specific withdrawal symptoms.

Our process is all about you, which is why we have private and shared rooms
available for our residents. Each room is outfitted with a TV, telephone,
and access to the internet. We also provide educational classes that will
show you how the drug or alcohol of your choice affects your body. We
believe that to effectively fight off your withdrawal symptoms, it is
important to know what you are fighting against and what to be prepared for.

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